The story goes that the two-millennia-old Farnese Sarcophagus was so heavy that in 1901 Isabella Stewart Gardner had the marble coffin hauled in and built her museum around it. For…Continue Reading →
Sorry to hear about the passing of Sam Cornish, who was Boston’s Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2015. He died on Aug. 20 at age 82. “As a black writer…Continue Reading →
In “Altarations: A Selection of Shrines”—at Dorchester Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave. Boston, from July 21 to Aug. 26, 2018—56 artists ponder the nature of shrines. Mine DaCosta presents a…Continue Reading →
Under pressure from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Northeastern University has again pushed back the deadline for when it says school’s landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program must vacate…Continue Reading →
The landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program at Northeastern University may have more time before the Boston school makes it vacate a university building in Jamaica Plain after…Continue Reading →
Artists involved in the African American Master Artists In Residence Program at Northeastern University charge that on Sunday the Boston school locked artists out of the building the four-decade program…Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands gathered this morning for “Together and Free: Rally Against Family Separation,” which began with speeches at on Boston City Hall Plaza then marched to Boston Common for…Continue Reading →
On July 4, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art will debut a satellite outpost on the East Boston waterfront, across the harbor from the museum’s Seaport/Innovation District home. Called the ICA…Continue Reading →
Tomorrow night and Friday are the last chances to see Boston artist Ben K. Foley’s mind-bending exhibition “Your New {Cosmic} Reality” at the Dorchester Art Project in Boston. The show…Continue Reading →
“I’m tired of people talking. You’ve just got to do it,” says Catherine Morris, founder, curator and executive director of the Boston Art & Music Soul Festival, which debuts from…Continue Reading →